WBill Jr. joined Cubs before all this foolishness started. I decided to let him keep rolling with it, because he'd look at a removal as a punishment. Instead, I got heavily involved and made sure that all the foolishness didn't infect the troop (it didn't, in fact, the troop became more conservative....) But I digress.
When we got started a few years ago, there were 35-40 kids in the cub scout pack. This whole "gays in the scouts" thing flared up soon after we joined.
Now, there are 6 left and the pack is hanging on by a fingernail. I'd guess that it will disband next year; trying to add girls to it will be the end of it. Other packs are just as bad off, or worse. A handful of them have disbanded, the "Big" one in the area is down to 30 or so, from 120-140...and it's only that big because it vacuumed up leftovers from disbanded packs.
I worked on recruiting for a couple of years. The higher-ups (not local) blamed everything - video games, soccer, youth football, karate classes, too much homework, not enough homework, bad camping weather, single-parent families... everything - for membership loss. All of these things existed just a few years ago, though. There's nothing new locally, no new teams, no new rec leagues, nothing.
So what's changed? The leadership started to make poor decisions. Everyone quit. It's not hard to go from point A to point B.
Sad to see a great institution crumble. Liberals cannot create, they only destroy all that they infect.
How many core principles has BSA dropped in the past five years?
No homosexual boys-Gone
No homosexual leaders-Gone
No transvestites-Gone
No girls-Gone
Boy Scouts of America-Gone
Do you honestly believe they will remain (and allow your troop to remain) segregated?
The first whiff of Susie cub scout and her mom saying they want to be with the boys, that “core” principle is gone.
I rose through the leader ranks from Den Leader to Scoutmaster. I founded a troop. One son made Eagle, the other Life when we left to move to Trail Life. That son earned their Pinnacle Award, the Freedom Award which is harder to earn.
My best advice is to find a Trail Life USA troop near you and make the move.
From my experience, it’s a far better program. It uses the best of the legacy we came from and improved it. We let boys be boys.
sad to hear.
My son was in Royal Rangers. Not many packs but it was a great experience for him. Similar to scouts and he made every single badge.
And being under the religious umbrella protects it from leftists.
That's putting it mildly.
The leadership put a knife to the organization's throat.